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JustNLP

📢 Call for Shared Tasks

JUST-NLP 2025: Workshop on NLP for Empowering Justice

Co-located with the premier conference IJCNLP-AACL 2025
Date: 24th December 2025
Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076, India

We are pleased to invite participation in the shared tasks organized as part of the JUST-NLP Workshop. This workshop aims to foster research and innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the legal domain, with a particular focus on practical and impactful applications in the large, multilingual legal system of India.

Legal systems in highly populous countries such as India are currently facing a crisis of judicial pendency. As per the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), India alone has over 44 million pending cases across courts. This backlog, primarily stemming from manual and inefficient processes, leads to the denial of timely justice, undermining the rights the legal system is meant to protect. AI-enabled automated systems can offer scalable solutions to assist legal professionals, reduce repetitive work, and improve access to justice. Despite significant progress in NLP for general domains in India, the legal domain remains under-explored due to its complexity, domain-specific language, and limited annotated datasets.

This JUST-NLP 2025 workshop aims to bring together AI researchers, legal professionals, and technologists to advance this area of applied NLP research. As part of this effort, we are launching 2 shared tasks, designed to address high-impact problems in legal document processing.

🧠 Details of Shared Tasks

📝 Task 1. Legal Summarization (L-SUMM)

🌐 Task 2. Legal Machine Translation (L-MT)

🗓 Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 PM AOE

EventDate
Shared Task Dataset ReleaseAugust 25, 2025
Shared Task Registration StartAugust 25, 2025
First Call Shared TaskAugust 25, 2025
Shared Task Registration EndSeptember 30, 2025
Testing PhaseOctober 14 to 18, 2025
Results & Leaderboard AnnouncementOctober 25, 2025
Shared Task Paper Submission Deadline03-Nov-2025
Camera-ready Shared Task Papers DueNovember 30, 2025
Shared Task reviews notification22-Nov-2025
Main paper reviews notification22-Nov-2025
Camera-ready (final) version of accepted papers due30-Nov-2025

🏁 Shared Task Results (October 25, 2025)

We are pleased to announce the official results and leaderboards for the JUST-NLP 2025 shared tasks. You can download the detailed result summaries and rankings below:

👥 Call for Participation

Participants are free to take part in both tasks. We encourage participation from:

  • Academic research groups in NLP, AI, and LegalTech
  • Legal professionals and practitioners with interests in AI solutions
  • Industry practitioners working on language technologies or AI for law
  • Multilingual NLP researchers and developers

💡 Registration Guidelines

🏆 Awards and Prizes

To recognize and encourage excellence in Legal NLP research, we are pleased to announce awards and certificates for top-performing teams:

These awards will be granted to the teams ranking at the top of the official leaderboard, based on objective evaluation metrics.

Contact

For any questions, feel free to reach out to the organizers at legalaieval@gmail.com OR Join our Discord server to stay updated and engage in discussions related to the shared tasks.

📄 Shared Task — Paper Submission Instructions

All invited teams and participants who wish to submit a short paper for the shared task should follow the ACL 2025 formatting guidelines. Below are the policies and timeline specific to Shared Task paper submissions (please read carefully):

  • Submission portal: Please submit your shared task system-description paper via OpenReview at the JUST-NLP workshop page: JUST-NLP OpenReview group.
  1. Invitation & Scope
  • Based on the final published results, all 9 top-performing teams (in L-SUMM) and all 7 top-performing teams (in L-MT) are invited to submit a short paper describing their systems and findings. Invited papers should follow the ACL template. The main content must be a maximum of 4 pages; references and appendices may extend beyond this limit.
  • Accepted papers will receive one additional main page for final camera-ready revisions. Accepted papers will be included in the JUST-NLP workshop proceedings at IJCNLP-AACL 2025.
  1. Double-blind Review Policy
  • The shared-task review process is double-blind and follows the ACL Two-Way Anonymized Review process. Submitted papers must NOT include authors’ names or affiliations. Authors should avoid self-references that reveal identities (e.g., “In our prior work [Anonymous, 2025]”).
  1. Timeline & Decisions
  • Shared Task Paper Submission Deadline: 03-Nov-2025 (11:59 PM AOE)
  • Review Submission Deadline: 05-Nov-2025 (11:59 PM AOE)
  • Final acceptance decisions announced by: 07-Nov-2025
  • Shared Task reviews notification: 22-Nov-2025
  • Main paper reviews notification: 22-Nov-2025
  • Camera-ready (final) version of accepted papers due: 30-Nov-2025

📣 Author confirmations & registration

  • Registration policy: For shared task system-description papers, workshop registration is not mandatory; however, registration is mandatory for presentation at the workshop.

All submitted reviews will be verified by the workshop committee. If you have questions about the submission process or review assignments, contact the organizers at legalaieval@gmail.com.

🤝 Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors, who are committed to advancing Legal NLP research.

TBD

We are currently welcoming additional sponsors. If your organization is interested in supporting this initiative through funding or providing resources, please reach out at: ashutoshm@cse.iitk.ac.in (Dr. Ashutosh Modi, IIT Kanpur)

📬 Organizing Team